Gerard Davison

Gerard "Jock" Davison (1967-5 May 2015) was a commander of the Provisional IRA, and was a pro-peace process republican during the aftermath of The Troubles.

Biography
Gerard Davison was born in 1967 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, and had three children. Davison was a community worker in the Markets area of Belfast before becoming a leader of the Provisional IRA, a republican Irish group that sought to unite Northern Ireland with the rest of Ireland and give the island full independence. Davison was a pro-peace process leader in the aftermath of The Troubles, but people within the PIRA who had a longstanding grudge against him shot him on 5 May 2015 in Belfast, killing him.